Pathology of the Human Placenta

• Main Authors: Benirschke, Kurt (Author), Kaufmann, Peter (Author), Baergen, Rebecca (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Edition: Fifth Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Obstetrics.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Obstetrics/Perinatology.

Most obstetricians and pediatricians would agree that the examination of the placenta often helps to explain an abnormal neona tal outcome. As early as in 1892, Ballantyne wrote, A diseased foetus without its placenta is an imperfect specimen, and a description of a foetal malady, unless accompanied...